Recommendations

The album sounds excellent nice insert with photos and lyrics. The labels are nice, the first side had the band logo and the other side has a photo of the band nice for center labels imo. Definitely worth the investment if you want a vinyl copy of the album. \m/ RIP Chuck, gone but not forgotten brother cheers from Canada. \m/

Im disappointed. Vinyls are very thin. There are no instrument's selectivity, there is too much bass, so there is one, big hum and noise. almost every solo is muted, with no boost. also vocal is muted and hard to hear it between fast riffs. tapped ending of Nothing is Everything is very funny, diferent than original. After hearing whole album, my ears need just some silence, for rest. Its a bad reissue. It sounds like diferent album becouse of tune.

The sound is much worse than the first press vinyl release. For example, you even do not hear the 'repeat echo' of the word 'obsession...' which chuck screams in the beginning of the first song at this part of the lyrics :

This original is my favorite version of "Individual Thought Patterns." I've done a very detailed comparison between this original version and the 2011 Reissue version on vinyl that was mastered by Alan Douches, and while I do really enjoy the reissues he did of all of Death's masterpieces this album is the one where I can hear the greatest difference between the original and the reissue. The original is quieter with much more dynamics in the instruments which greatly benefits the music style on this album and especially the guitars they just overpowered the album on the reissue because for some reason they were turned up unnecessarily loud. Just compare them yourself to hear the difference. Bottom line is if you love this album then you need to own a copy of the original, so buy it it's not expensive.

It sounds so good that when you compare it with the CD from 1993, it almost feels like it's a different album - and you wonder what for fuck's sake have they done with that CD back then. The difference is totally mind blowing. Great mastering job.

Overall this is a slight different version, more raw in sound:- misses "obsession" (A1) and "nothing/everything" (A5) echoes- drums possibly re-equalized, stripped of some clarity, snare has definitely different sound, splashes and hats almost no mid range.- vocals are flattened and falls a bit in the back- guitars, bass lines are the same, just not that much richness- solos have no delays anymore (I am missing it a lot in A5)- key effects barely audible- overall lack of cohesion in sound image (using the mastered version for the CD to press the vinyl? less dynamic range as loudness-compression does not work well for vinyl)- B5 is the longer version